Sea of Thieves Has Just SHOOK ME TO MY CORE.

[@epicwaluigi7773]

Season 13 deserves a cinematic trailer

[@CastXaway]

Hell yeah it does. I miss them

[@-megawolf-805]

Looks like you got your wish!

[@alanolex3962]

I haven't been this hyped for Sea of Thieves since I was waiting for release.

[@benjakincabbagewalkerbenja7943]

Hopefully nobody will be disappointed this time

[@Crux___]

I remember hearing someone suggesting a larger ship type as a controllable world event like this, they must feel pretty cool having predicted it I imagine

[@AShinyRay]

Ahem...

[@Crux___]

Oh was that you 😅

[@GigaLobster]

I saw that on Reddit some Guy said it could be with the Flying Dutchman

[@captainflowers748]

@@Crux___ could be anyone, anyone could predict anything

[@Crux___]

@@captainflowers748 it was specifically from a yt video discussing the addition of a bigger ship size so that narrows it down ig 🤷

[@captainwolf348]

I just thought of something. How exactly do you defeat a ship without sinking it? Maybe flameheart IS on the burning blade and he’s like “you fight well, I have other things to attend to use this ship” probably not but who knows.

[@Broken_valley]

Board it😊

[@Brutalyte616]

Well he said flat out that 'sinking' it temporarily puts the ship in a state where it can be commandeered should you board the ship, go inside, and pledge yourself to Flameheart.

[@chazzerine7650]

The way I see it, "sinking" it actually just stuns the vessel and makes it unable to take any actions. During which time you can climb aboard and commandeer it.

[@snowthelegowolf4230]

My guess is it will be stun after fighting it, and if you continue to pound on it, it will eventually sink.

[@AzazelTheFoxxo]

Most likely the ship either comes with a healthbar type deal where it takes shots till it finally is put down or it reaches 2nd deck and sinks like normal but instead of floating down it just hangs in the water or smth

[@GhostAdmiral]

Rare absolutely smashed it out of the park with the preview event, genuinely was in absolute awe throughout. Can't wait for Season 13 especially though, new environments are always SO exciting to see. Diamond age here we come 🏴‍☠️💎

[@beckywilson1550]

Yes captain here we go

[@AShinyRay]

Yes sir, you're absolutely right sir

[@thrice33]

You know it's good when an Athena supporter is excited for flamehearts return

[@clownsanity]

Having a brand new player base coming to Playstation must have given new purpose to the dev team. Sea of Thieves will become bigger and better

[@abandoned__]

i just know it in my bard's bones that they're going to add the violin this year !! bring forth the diamond age !! 🏴‍☠

[@cultistclan6752]

Sorry buddy, it's piano for sure

[@mullenn]

lets just hope its not a buggy mess and maybe we have something really special here😭🙏

[@AngelRamirez-qp7uu]

Rip PC players

[@Rheinmetall2025]

They gonna make a whole team dedicated to big fixing

[@Rheinmetall2025]

@ddontyy yea well this is rare but I’m being optimistic this year. Let rare cook

[@Indioh]

​@@AngelRamirez-qp7uu?

[@Spectralyzed]

I'm absolutely sure that it's going to be buggy when it gets released, but I have faith it'll end up being worth it.

[@user-pt5xc1pp4z]

Since Flameheart's making a giant comeback, Let's call it the Era of Flame.

[@infinitypeaches3329]

ashen age?

[@Star_Sys_]

or just call it lit

[@BonusQwack]

I personally want can't wait for the daggers to come out it will be super fun doing trick shots with them

[@VenLapaki]

I can see why they decided to do more than just a tease or vague hint towards the future this time. A lot of people have been turned off by all the foundational changes, and lack of sandbox updates. Rare NEEDED to establish trust with many of these folks again. And this preview event was the perfect way to do it. There's no longer a question of if future seasons will be significant. We know exactly what's coming, and it's all they promised and more. What has me most excited about this, is Rare's clear willingness to break the mold. Before they were reluctant to introduce things like new weapons or something like a massive ship, for fear of upsetting the balance. Now they're doing it BECAUSE it'll shake up the balance and keep the game from getting stale. That willingness to try something crazy sets an amazing precedence for the quality of updates moving forward. I genuinely had thought that the days of true game changing updates like this were something we'd only see year 1, when they were scrambling to get the game into a truly finished state. Now I can't wait for all of these amazing changes, and I'm beyond excited for the future of this game.

[@thrice33]

Being able to command the burning blade in a man o war form is probably one of the most exciting things this game could offer! This year already looks promising and we haven't seen everything yet according to the devs!

[@TempusAspect]

when i watched the trailer yesterday was so incredibly happy, made my year just hearing that. been loving this game for years and just some days cant find myself playing it because i have everything. real content like this will bring me back its great to see this revolutionary change in the sandbox.

[@Empty12345]

Shame that the burning blade ship just has galleon sails, looks a bit off. Even the black pearl from tall tale has unique sails. Maybe they're just placeholders for now...

[@normalhuman4951]

I mean it is work in progress

[@Empty12345]

@@normalhuman4951 Yeah, hopefully just place holders for now..

[@ValentinoMarino11]

Even if it doesn’t, it still looks badass. It’s literally a dragon! A fire-breathing ship!

[@MrMinster228]

I still really really want them to add a 5 man crew or 6 I want more of my friends to join. gives us man of wars besides the event like make the man a war the 4th ship we can use but require 6 people

[@christopherfulkerson1480]

I hope we get more world event ships and that they all can be active at the same time imagine the Dutchman vs the burning blade

[@PotholedAxe9985]

The burning blade is by far the best part for me, along with the grapple gun. Allows for more boarding and ways to catch running ships. You overshot, shoot down like seen in the video. You undershot or got knocked off, use it to get back on. I like it. But actually becoming the world event is so cool. I'm sure some folk are gonna make servers really rough to play on, but conquering it and getting to actually do it yourself is so cool. Plus you could just server hop if the folk who currently control it are really aggressive. You'll feel like a true captain with a crew of skellies and a bad ass ship too. The true scourge of the seas!

[@Seawolf.Gaming]

1:37 in the preview they called it the windcaller not the horn of fair winds. Interesting. Also funny because windcaller would be a skyrim reference. Edit: Actually a lot of the information you're giving is not what was said. Don't let Rare catch you my guy.

[@zhuyuchen8324]

Shit yeah

[@alyx8815]

3:00 they will have a great function like you pointed out earlier. You can’t carry loot while sword lunging but you can with zip lines

[@ImZego]

Everything looks amazing! I wonder how many bone callers you can have at once. You could make a small army of skeles!

[@anomaly_jackie]

adding a playable man o war as a special event rather than a normal ship you can just select was a goated decision imo

[@cleo1488]

Bringing Sea of Thieves to PS5 was a good decision. Rare can invest more due to the extra revenue, and hopefully, they will bring it to Nintendo Switch 2

[@pls_stap_]

I prefer playing Sea of Thieves on PC, but hopefully the Nintendo Switch 2 has performance comparable to the PS5 lmaoo, since I'm definitely getting one for Splatoon 4!

[@I.K.E.L.O.S]

It won't run on the switch 2

[@tylerjames1716]

Only thing I've heard for switch rumors is that it would be playable via game streaming only

[@sluttyboy69]

Ur welcome, welcome to the Playstation era

[@BSB2B2T]

Changes look good as long as they properly check for exploits/bugs. I can see there being big bugs or unintended broken features with the double pistol (too much damage), and potential big exploits with the harpoon gun like flying or something lol.

[@DaveDaChicken21]

the fact you’re saying this could be SoT’s biggest year fills me with the a lot of hope 😂

[@Bucke782]

I haven’t play sea of thieves for so long since I reached pirates legend and did all the tall tale quests and other stuff but god damn I think I’ll have to get the old crew back together for this.

[@wolfygirlowo]

harpoon gun and crouching is gonna make sot so much fun again, imagine the amount of movement tech

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Honestly I’m on the fence about the grapple gun. Sure it’s absolutely going to be fun as hell to use, but it’s absolutely going to destroy the ladder guarding meta. Unless rare locks out the weapons cabinet on enemy ships there’s nothing to stop a skilled enough player from grapple boarding dancing their way to the cabinet and double gunning the enemy crew.

[@Rheinmetall2025]

Double gunning❌ Double Londoning ✅

[@user-pt5xc1pp4z]

Runneth thine pockets yee scallywag!

[@sSteppingStones]

I hope with crouching they also add movement like sliding and manteling the environment. Mirrors edge style movement if u know what i mean

[@Bandit74100]

That'd be sick, plus id actually benefit from spamming space like a monkey now lmao

[@RipplyAnemone67]

I find it crazy it took 6 years to get new weapons as I feel like it’s an east way to make the game feel really different

[@Bandit74100]

Rare was worried that adding new weapons would shake up the balance too much and leave the game in a very sorry state (like league of legends that has 150+ characters that have to be balanced around the 200+ or so items.) excluding server performance cause it was always bad.

[@gusanderson3957]

Imagine missing your deck shot and using the horn to yeet back to their ladder 🤣🤣

[@General..Grievous]

Cant wait to use a Man-O-War and get annihilated by one dude in a fucking sloop with thousands of hours in the game😂

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

When he’s so experienced he’s pummeling you with cannonballs as he is guarding repairs and the anchor on the man o war

[@ValentinoMarino11]

I hope the ai are good shots…

[@danielbranc854]

I haven't played SoT since 2021, hopped on for the sake of good ol' times this month and was blown away how little progress the game actually made in *3 years*. Yes, captaincy update, monkey island and a few quality of life things like the sovereigns and the harpoon rework but like that's all there is to show for 3 years? And they actually remove content like Sea Dog Arena? You can create a whole new fucking game in 3 years. But seems like this is where things finally pick up again, fingers crossed as I'd love to see SoT flourish again

[@therichbarbecue340]

Rare just turned the entire kitchen into a stove and cooked so hard without burning anything

[@zhuyuchen8324]

Burning blade tho 🤣🤣

[@TripleXMango]

I don’t believe the throwing knives are weapons to be equipped. As I understood it, they are a new throwable. Otherwise, how would you be able to pick one up after it was thrown at you, unless you have it equipped as well.

[@braxtonthelucario2129]

Im hyped for the new weapons cus ima go goblin mode with the throwing knife it was mt favorute thing to do in cod now i can do it in SOT

[@xNightHawk32]

I’m thinking I’ll be using the cutlass and the knife as well. There’s a lot of versatility, plus I think it will be fun to throw it into various things as I play and then retrieve it.

[@WoodlandDrake]

The only thing I wish is that they would add is more to do while you are killing time sailing from one location to the next, something other than fishing... Diving to the first point is nice, but if you are not steering the boat you are kind of just sitting on your thumbs and feeling the call of the void to set fire to something or get annihilated with grog.

[@BaronVonMott]

I'm not exactly a fan of the Reapers as a faction myself, but actually having the Burning Blade roaming the seas as a "boss ship", and even offering players the option of commanding it themselves, is one of the most awesome ideas Rare has ever introduced!

[@DastardlyPilot]

While I really love the new path they are taking with this game, the original reason me and my friends stoped playing was because we didn’t like having to watch our backs every moment to make sure other players were going to attack us, so while I like what I’m hearing I don’t think I’ll come back to it, but I do this everyone should play it at least once to find out for themselves

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodsc1447]

I am willing to bet that the flameheart ship event is a test for when we eventually get larger ships ourselves

[@viper-gi9sz]

Some youtuber alredy made a concept for the flameharts ship, a while ago, id never thought they'd listen

[@eleazarparadise626]

0:57 any trickster main/player from Dbd is gonna EAT with that

[@jetm0t0moto68]

Skeleton Poke-balls and grappling guns appear to be equally fun additions for new players and old alike. Lots to love here.

[@Mr.LegoGrievous]

It’s worth noting that the Burning Blade has 10 cannons on both sides, not total! This means that there are 20 total cannons. Also, I’m a little disappointed that skeleton camps are going to occupy already existing islands. I sorta figured, but it is a shame some smaller islands will be sacrificed for them. Still better to have them though, can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs

[@papyrusspaghetti9376]

Dang. I was starting to work towards making my own pirate game, and I had many of these exact ideas in terms of weapons, especially for the grapeshot. Now I'm scared to make it, due to the possibility Rare decides to be a copyright troll :(

[@yourworstnightmare4410]

PvP is gonna feel like a fever dream with all that new stuff flying around, bring it on

[@ThatFortniteGuy-hq9sf]

Bro the Grapple Gun + Blunderbuss wll be so OP

[@ethansmith8813]

Use the burning blade to fight the flying dutchman lol. And compare it to the black pearl

[@MW-gb7fe]

You had me with the flagship, wonder if people could use it in safer seas?

[@voodoom5880]

I'm pretty excited for the throwing knives because they are retrievable

[@Quetrix1]

oh...whai i just realized that grappling gun can break shores of gold. u would be able to just pass all Briggsy traps

[@supergogetamario]

I only got 1 complaint about the new update and thats with the harpoon gun. It will be even harder to solo sloop, because you will have harder time defending the ship from boarders who can now grapple. Overall though? More new content is a great thing.

[@hardwiredwithjoshjaimie5853]

Wind's picking up boys. To your stations if you please!!!

[@Wezryx]

I hadn't read about it yet, but it's exactly how I Want it.

[@magicpyroninja]

Now all we need is the reaper rowy back then we can have explosive reaper jet skis😂

[@mastertrolley669]

I am very excited for season 12 ( and owls when they come out)

[@ryliiiiiiii]

0:59 Birmingham update

[@jimbodee4043]

Extreemly pleased with the work in progress, if onbly the current season things worked like loggin in and buying skins.

[@reddemon6668]

I think the Zip line gun should work more like a swing shot, if there’s any reeling in it should be done slowly enough that 1. Cannon shot close to enemy ships will land u on the ship but if shot too far you’ll miss the mark Or 2. You cant use it to get to higher ground, only to bridge a gap at same or lower ground while still allowing players to control the direction of the swing. As for the harpoon gun, I would have preferred if it was tied to the crows nest and only allowed players to zip down to lower platforms. It gives it balance cuz enemy players on ships can destroy the zip line if they’re quick enough (since it’s close to ground lvl), requires players to climb up the ladder to the crows nest more (more crows nest utility) (and allows players to be spotted and taken out before boarding which is a good skill play). As it stand I feel these 2 tools are a bit too op.

[@mikael100100]

So basically make harpoon gun useless as a sword could do the same, but also attack. Nah family, people are way too panicked, harpoon gun will be fine

[@reddemon6668]

@@mikael100100 if you want to see the world back and white then that’s on you, I’m not going to change ur perspective, but when all one needs to board a ship is to aim a gun at the ship with a gun, even at medium distances, then that’s when limitations need to be placed. Also, you must have misunderstood as they wouldn’t be the same as a sword lunge distance covered. Players would need to aim at another ships mast, but as long as it hooks to an elevated object, they should still be able to swing from it

[@mikael100100]

​@@reddemon6668 eyah, basically rendering it neutered into uselessness, that's the point. crows nest? that's it? that will be relegated to a funny gimmick, at best. that's what you want :/

[@reddemon6668]

@@mikael100100 it’s not a gimmick as it would allow one to still board ships at mid to close range, with the limitation that you wouldn’t be able to walk on it upwards, and you wouldn’t be able to shoot the zip line somewhere where it can’t be countered. If anything, it would make the crows nest more viable. What do players currently use the crows nest for? It’s better to have a crew mate handling sails, steering, repairs, or ready on cannons than being up there wasting everyone’s time. Barely will u see experienced players in the crows nest. Basically just allows u to take in the sight as spotting isn’t too hard from below either. As for the swing shot, it doesn’t allow players to be boarded so easily. As they showed it, it practically takes no skill to board. You can be in the water and in less than 2 seconds you’re on the enemy ship. Either the swing shot comes with a reel in mechanic, that slowly pulls you up the ship, giving enemy players enough time to react, or you can board ships by using the swing shot on your own mast or enemy masts to swing yourself over.

[@Lightclaw]

erm, a shiny ray! A man'o'war is technically not a ship but any type of sailing boat or ship that contains manned cannons!

[@jark06]

Hyped as hell for this, can’t wait to see what else they’re planning and how the lore is going to be delivered.

[@GreyGannet]

me and most of my mates quit the game after season 9. with everything new like PVE servers and more I felt like I had lost the game I loved but now looking at this I think I should give this game one last shot for old times sake.

[@NPC_5439]

I might actually get back into SOT now

[@tighlia3375]

The man-o-war is interesting. I bet you it won't be available in SS though.

[@KKG0919]

I'm hoping Rare can start making sure the bugs are ironed out before they get released, like the recent non stop crashing bug caused by EAC

[@cptlatham6126]

I'm hopeful considering they said that they are expanding their team so they can have people whose only job it is to fix stuff like this. They said that usually that stuff was given to people to do in their extra time but now we'll have a team working on just that all the time.

[@montecarlowithdawningornam1817]

I might actually get into this game when the season drops. I tried before but the servers were empty

[@Clubbedcashew50]

This is going to be awesome, unless caught with your pants down.

[@Code0ne]

We are all going to be running around like ghost face lol

[@EneruM]

Only thing missing is for they to fix hourglass horrible bugs and the constant crashes that still happen after today's patch that was explicitly for the crashes...

[@BonesNFriess]

I REALLY hope the burning blade is connected to the hourglass in some way so that defending feels worth it. If not then I don’t care I’m still going to sink/conquer it.

[@BlackMatter-gd3wi]

W, I am crying it so good the update!

[@natesaurus4089]

The one thing I wish for is to get the story more back on track. Like don’t just use the Burning Blade as a world Event, give us a tall tale or adventure

[@shrequs]

more dynamic and complex combat with so many more facettes to think about. and then they add the burning blade and use the now completely different comabt for a completely new type of event. i want to use 120 fov but i accept that it gets put down because hacking was too much. 2023 really feels like its going to be huge for sot

[@user-eo5rs6tq1z]

Ok the golden age returns summer gonna be sick

[@Shockedpikachu1]

“Doing a G check on the mandem in south on a Saturday night” Bro accepted the stereotype

[@sdswood3457]

S13 and S14's harpoon gun alone look phenomenal!

[@tygamer63]

I can not wait for that Flameheart event. It looks awesome!

[@TheDarthWinner]

The updates coming look fire but honestly really concerned about the grapple gun

[@Sparkysocial-lx1de]

im sure the flame heart ship wont be horribly laggy

[@BlackyJacky]

At the moment I do not like the front of the burning blade, the concept art was much better. But I cannot wait do sail that ship…

[@thrice33]

Well it is work in progress so things can still change!

[@HenryTomb]

These updates are going to absolutely destroy skull and bones 💀

[@amazonamazon4872]

Yeah, they are adding a bunch, but all that theyre adding is gonna make it a noghtmare for solos or 2 man crews to defend. As it is the aggressor takes on 0 risk when engaging.

[@j.s.s.j.7516]

But let's be realistic, I am sure we will only get two more seasons this year. Everything looks exciting though. :)

[@christopherfulkerson1480]

Man season 13 I’m sooo hyped what if they did this world event thing with the pearl and Flying Dutchman

[@kb-nm4uk]

Looking forward to the end of ladder camping with new access to the hookshot rifle.

[@BendMax]

Sot on ps5, FLAMEHEART SHIP WORLD EVENT, More weapons, more throwables. What more could i ask for when I'm introducting my ps5 friends to sot for the first time.

[@arathyn8294]

Imagine if you could somehow someway bring the burning blade into hourglass

[@Jascosaurus]

The double barrel pistol could have just been the base pistol. But they could have let us fire it twice similar to the way Saltspyre from vermintide does. Where we have two pistols instead of one that we fire in quick succession. So instead of a double barrel we could just have 2 pistols

[@AShinyRay]

That or dual wield pistols?

[@King_Vangelis]

I like to believe that they wanted to add all this stuff in 2023 but decided they should bring it to PlayStation before the huge stuff. Because it seems like the last updates were preparing for PlayStation release.

[@Dragon.um5tz]

Rare are really G’s for making this game and trying to improve it more and more

[@shadowrodney]

This looks cool to come back to

[@apps9129]

One thing that did leave me wanting more is normal day to day activities. We haven’t gotten anything since legend of the veil or chests of fortune. Hopefully s12 includes some sort of activity or incentive to try out the new features. Kind of like s5’s theme of burying loot and creating voyages but actually good. I’m not someone who enjoys to pvp just for the sake of it. I prefer pvp environments like arena not open world. Too much risk and time needed for my solo and very limited play style. I was also pretty certain there was going to be a HC update. I imagine s12 will also come with cremate dueling since all the new weapons. S14 is the only real letdown though.

[@infinitypeaches3329]

how is s14 a letdown? it expands on tucking and adds hiding in chests + blowdarts and grapple gun

[@senorpurpleskull3862]

Spy TF2 in sot? That throwing knife is so cool.

[@user-pt5xc1pp4z]

**Snorts In French**

[@carvedmoth4779]

That’s what I was thinking

[@landometer4561]

I wonder if the new world event will be active while other events are also active or if the ship will be the only thing active while on the server?

[@Falloutgamebreaker]

I hope they add a feature where you can kick players from your crew without need for everyone els voting because many times someone joins the crew and ruins it for everyone and theres nothing you can do from them costing you lots of progress and its you're crew

[@pedrosuarez8626]

''maybe we can call it the diamond age or some shit''. Truly poetical.

[@intellectualpencil7627]

I said the same thing as in the thumb nail when I watched the video

[@Pilgrimetro]

Can’t wait to be spam boarded by sweats with the new grapple gun😍🥰

[@seabones2006]

My only worry is the grapple gun. I feel like something like that would be quite broken... I know that they said they would limit ammo to balance it but unless it only has 1 shot, I feel like it would just be too good.

[@Seawolf.Gaming]

If it's limited to 3 then that will be balanced.

[@emigomez4295]

Finally a reason to return to the waves